Korn shell to insert cyrillic characters into the databse

Shell Programming and Scripting
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i have written a shell script that reads a csv file and inserts tokenized strings into the database.

the problem comes when the csv file has cyrillic characters.

how do i set the parameters in my shell script(korn shell) so that any characters can be inserted into the database.

2

What is the file encoded in?

3

the csv file is encoded in UTF8

4

utf-8 is ASCII-compatible, with extended characters containing nothing that ought to be interpreted as nulls or escape sequences or control chars. Nothing special should be needed as long as the server is told to expect utf-8.